Uncertain Futures: Adapting development to a changing climate - Softcover

Ensor, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853397202 ISBN 13: 9781853397202

Verlag: Practical Action, 2011

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Críticas

"This is a fascinating and timely book. It deals with a set of highly complex issues surrounding the practical dimensions of tackling community-based adaptation."--Emily Boyd, School of Earth and Environment

"With a possible future of four degrees warming, such radical approaches to development and adaptation are necessary, vital and urgent."--Katrina Brown, Professor of Development Studies

"Uncertainty Future marries intellectual rigour with lessons from development practice. In doing so, it presents a strong conceptual basis for designing and implementing high-quality development programmes focused on climate change adaptation."--Alan Brouder, Head of Climate Change Adaptation

"This book will be an excellent guide for development policy makers, planners and practitioners grappling with incorporating climate change into development."--Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow, Climate Change Group

Reseña del editor

"Community-based adaptation is a new concept whose meaning is still to be fully understood. Most agree that communities should be supported to respond to the challenges they face, and some see this as the goal of community-based adaptation. By contrast, Uncertain Futures proposes that community-based adaptation must also address inevitable future uncertainty by supporting the ongoing ability to change. In this view, attention is focused on adaptive capacity, through which communities are able to make changes to their lives and livelihoods in response to emerging environmental change. As such, the concept of adaptive capacity challenges development actors to think in terms of how material and knowledge assets are distributed, accessed and controlled. It means that the quality of relationships, determined by characteristics such as power, culture and gender, are drawn into the foreground, and that interventions must look across scales rather than at communities in isolation. Uncertain Futures argues that as greenhouse gas emissions continue to accumulate, a 'business as usual' approach to development practice is increasingly inadequate and the importance of securing adaptive capacity becomes more urgent. Uncertain Futures examines this challenge, and invites readers to rethink development policy and practice in terms of how adaptive capacity can be best supported. This book should be read by the staff of donor agencies, policy makers, NGO practitioners, academics and students of development studies and theenvironment."--publisher.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Practical Action
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1853397202
• ISBN 13: 9781853397202
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 122